Games and A Question is Answered

Happy almost Thursday my friends,

I hope you all are doing well. My week has consisted of raging mental health hydra, seeing an old friend, watching Critical Role, and playing some games. That's about it. So I'm gonna touch base on the games and the gt together with my friend.

Games Galore:

Since it's been a slow week I thought I'd spend a portion of this post talking about some of the games I've been rocking lately.

Tablet Games:

xStreamer and Epic Band Clicker

I think xStreamer was in the suggested games on my tablet, then I located Epic Band Clicker through it. They are made by Tapps Games. The have really laid back game play, mostly tapping your screen repeatedly.  Reminds me of Cookie Clicker. These are fun little games to have when you need a quick game to kill time maybe like in a doctor's office.

Eternium

I've been playing this RPG lately on my tablet. This has some really nice graphics and music. I also get a kick out of the little quips that emanate from my character's mouth.

Computer Games:

Farmville

For the last couple nights I've been getting back to playing Farmville. I can never hope to catch up in their expansions, but I'm still gonna play it here an there. I love that you have all the unusual plants and animals to have on your farm. But it's nice to play while I'm binging Critical Role.

The Sims 3

Yes I still rock Sims 3. I recently finished putting together yet another Summery themed family. I'm currently playing one of my Geeky sims named Tracey Bearden (Game generated name). She's an inroverted sim who has like three degrees (it was her Lifetime Wish), she works at the Bot Arena, and she's penned a few comics. You guys got any cool sims you're playing?

Chinese Restaurant Conversations:

Tuesday Fangirl, Captain, and I got together for a lovely meal of Chinese food. I think all our fortunes fit us. Mine was technically coming to pass at that moment. Yeah it was crazy. Anyway, during our meal we started talking Captain Marvel, we had to be careful with Endgame cause Captain hadn't seen it yet. Our conversation revisited a question Fangirl and I had after we saw Captain Marvel, why is is the cat called Goose. I've mention this in a post a few days ago. So after I got home, I forgot again, and remembered it right as I was going to bed. So I did a search and found this ScienceFiction.com article that revealed the answer, I was right it was after Goose from Top Gun. I get a Pocky stick!

And there we have it. Fangirl and I will be hanging with Captian this weekend, so that should be fun, and I'm serious I have seen the ad for Godzilla King of Monsters so many times on Youtube. I hope you all have a good weekend, have fun, and may God bless you!

Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer and Vampire >vv< Kitty

Free Comic Book Day 2019

Happy Friday Friends,

In today's post we'll be talking Free Comic Book Day (FCBD), I may have mentioned it before but this is one if not my favorite geeky holiday.

Prep

I prepared for the day by painting my nails as close to a comic book yellow as I could get ( I used a wet n wild® yellow). Then using a technique I learned a long time ago somewhere on Facebook I guess I added newsprint to it. This is achieved by soaking your nails in alcohol and laying a piece of news print over your nail briefly and the words will transfer. Sadly you can't see the news print well in this picture.

 

Goodbye?

On to the day itself,  the morning which smelled so good. We went to our usual first FCBD stop Hero Hunter comics, which had moved and seemed to be closed. We learned from a guy later that they'd closed the week before. I don't know if it's permanent or what.

Morgan's Comics

We headed to Morgan's Comics, and ran into the guy who use to own Not So Old Toys and Comics, he may still he said he might come back so not sure. A lot of unsure on businesses on this day.

It was sensory overload as it usually at comic shops during FCBD. There were free comics, figures, and an old NES system. Saw a really nice Batman costume and a woman with I assume her kids who was dressed in a cute TARDIS dress. I ended up picking up a couple d10's to add to my collection:

 

I've done named them so that'll be part of a dice naming post at some point.

Comic Envy

Our next Stop was Comic Envy where Captain Sparrow was manning traffic yet again, he had a few helpers later encouraging people to stop by. 

 One of my favorite costumes I saw here was the worker dressed as Luna Lovegood, one of my favorite characters from Harry Potter. I also ran into an old Film and Video classmate. He was geeking out with his sons. I ended up purchasing a couple comics, one being Marvel True Believers® #1 Earth's Mightiest Hero Captain Marvel. Ever since her movie she's made my top three superheros. I can't tell you the second one cause it's a gift for someone.

The Wayvern's Tale
We popped next door at The Wayvern's Tale, a cool gaming store that has become part of our FCBD rounds. So many games and stuff I wanna purchase, but then I'd be broke. I did get couple dice. One as a gift, and this cute little one:

For some reason this dice reminds me of Big Hero 6's Baymax.
I also saw the TARDIS Mom again, so nice to know we weren't the only one's making rounds to the nerdy stores that day.

Avengers: Endgame

We then headed to the movie theater for lunch and to see Avengers: Endgame. All I can say is wow! It was an epic movie with epic feels. I may have actually shed a tear or two. *warning channeling Captain Malcom Reynolds* I got goosbumps during this movie. If you haven't seen it, see it before it gets spoiled for you if you can.

And can I just say what Stan Lee says for his final cameo is good words, though I think "Excelsior" would have been more perfect. I just hope they find ways of honoring him in other movies.

Other Geeky Haul

After the movie to move around a bit, and maybe a bit of retail therapy, we did some shopping. I came across the entire first season of Angel which I happily purchased given I have yet to get any Buffyverse episodes yet.

Geeky Inspiration

As I was out I found myself being inspired by what I saw, so I crafted a poem:

FCBD 2019 Observations

The floral scents of morning
 Sweetly kiss the nose
Are we saying goodbye
To the one who introduced us to this day?
The Wendy's worker in the mascot's clothing
Dances on the roadside with balloons tied to her arms
A sidewalk traveler spontaneously busts a move
While at a stop light a driving woman sings to the music
A familiar face pops up at a new place
Someday he might return to us
A stop sign has become a vegan's message
"STOP eating animals"
A band jams under an overpass
Beneath the flying squirrels
The purple bus zooms by
Proclaiming someone's done weirder
The afternoon rain drenches the world
As an epic battle plays before our eyes

So did you guys have any favorite comics from this year? I'm still working through mine. Right now no surprise my favorite is Doctor Who. I hope you have a good weekend, geek it up, and may God bless you!
Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer

Great Strides 2019

Hello friends,

This past Friday my peeps and I gathered together for Great Strides. Great Strides raises funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in hopes of finding a cure for this disease. For more information about CF check out the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Website.

My personal CF story started back in Middle School the year after I first met the Captain, and I noticed she'd have to go to the office before lunch and get meds. She told me she had to take them with meals to help her digestion. Over the years I've seen the battle she's had to face dealing with her disease, but she amazes me that she keeps a good sense of humor about it. She is why I walk, for her and all those suffering. I can only hope a cure can be found.

Captain posing with the Captain

The location of the walk is beautiful. We've had to switch to the walk in Franklin since they stopped doing the walk at Carrier Park in Asheville, plus a good portion of our walk team is out toward that way. Even though I miss the other place, there is some beautiful scenic views:

This river made me think Summer so bad

It rained earlier in the day, but luckily the rains stayed back for the walk, though we did have lovely cloud views.

After burning up on the walk we returned to a couple slices of pizza and watching this poor balloon guy who'd been making balloon animals and light sabers since the start of the event, and in the case of my adopted nephew a cactus. I don't know it's what he wanted.

The Team

 As many of our adventures go we ended up at a Chinese restaurant, conversed a bit, and then rode away into the night.

A lot of money was raised, and I feel good knowing it's a charity that puts more money toward their cause, and hopefully it can help my friend and many like her live longer.

I hope you guys have a good week, do good, and God bless.

Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer and Vampire >vv< Kitty

Free Comic Book Day and Marvel

Hello my nerdy friends,

Free Comic Book Day is coming up. I've made my list of comics I'm particularly interested in, got my big bag ready to hold stuff, and wondering who's dying in Avengers: Endgame, yeah I such an optimist aren't I? Yeah we decided to save this movie for FCBD to continue the tradition, at least for the last few years of a comic book movie on FCBD. Speaking of things Marvel have you seen you guys seen the awesomeness Jimmy Fallon did? That probably is a stupid question isn't it? I wish this song could be available for download.

Captain Marvel
Last month to get ready for Endgame Fangirl and I went and saw Captain Marvel. I have to say after the feels of Infinity War this movie was a little more easier on the emotions except when Stan Lee came on the screen. I mean come on we all had feels there. I love the nostalgia: old businesses and phone booths, I mean even the movie's website screamed 90's, ah the days when almost everyone had a website. I also loved seeing some familiar old faces in this movie, and new ones like Goose! I foresee cats being named Goose. Fangirl thinks the cat was so named for the Spruce Goose, but I say he was named Goose from Top Gun. What do you all think? I think Captain Marvel maybe my third favorite comic hero now. Second being Storm from X-Men, and the top slot going to Wonder Woman.

Free Comic Book Day
One of my favorite geeky holidays is FCBD, it's free comics! I also try to make sure to purchase something so I'm just not getting free stuff, gotta love a massive conscious. I'm looking forward to this year's Doctor Who comic and the Whedonverse one.  Do you guys have any your looking forward to getting?

Well I have a lot of geekiness coming up, I hope you guys have a good week end, and God bless you!
Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer

One Night After Filming

 Happy Monday Friends,

This week I decided to close National Poetry Month with one last poem about one night in college.

One Night After Filming

Another long filming day wraps
So they all make their way home
Leaving me here... All alone
Stranded in this cabin in the woods
Guarder of horribly expensive movie equipment
Upstairs the doors locked and lights shut off
I take refuge in the lit basement game room
For a long night of pool playing

I throw a CD on that sweet player
To scare away the lonely feeling
To drive out the silence of the night
For awhile it's just the music
And the clank of balls
All is good
Nothing bad
Time for a new disc
I walk past the sliding doors bathed in darkness
As I cast a glance out
I find a face stares back from without...

I wonder what would have happened if I'd died that night?
What would my class have thought
When my body was discovered the next morning?
Would they know the culprit that stopped my heat
Was just a curious fox

Yeah that happened. I still find it amusing. Hope your tangles with nature are less hair raising and may God bless you!

Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer and Vampire >vv< Kitty

Musical Moment: Inspired Music

Happy last speck of Monday music lovers,

The time of all egg foods has begun! How was my Easter? My sister visited and we ended up visiting old fishing holes, the cemetery where we fixed the wreath on our uncle's grave, then a hike up in the woods. Did I mention I did all this in pj pants? We also had good home cook goodness to eat and of course chocolate, but I wanna talk about ear food today, music. To be more specific music that I feel God sent to me went I needed it.

See I've always had a close relationship to music my family performing it, my name coming from a song, those years I dreamed of being in music. I sometimes think I feel more connected to God when I listen to Christian tunes. So who's to say he doesn't send tunes to inspired us when we need it.

Bring It All Back by S Club-
My friends and I loved this band in high school. They actually gave themselves nicknames after the members names, this tended to happen with each fandom they had, I didn't get one in this case I did with Sliders and Lord of the Rings. One of my favorite songs was the first theme song for their TV show: Bring It All Back. Well time passed and I was probably in college or later and I was having a rough day I think the Mental Health Hydra may have been acting up. Now I hadn't heard this song in a long time and as I remember on this day feeling low and out of nowhere this upbeat song came into my head, like the universe knew it's what I needed. I still love jamming to it, it puts me in a good mood.

One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men-
This is the sadder of the inspired songs that have come to me in my life. A little over a month after I turned 18 my uncle lost his battle with lung cancer. It was a rough experience, and given I was at the hospital the night he passed it's a time and date that's been ingrained in my head every since. Well a few years back I was listening to I think a TV radio station this song came on, and it spoke to me reminded me of my uncle who I remembered had passed that day and I looked up and it was around the time he passed away. It was a beautiful sad tune the Lord sent my way, and I'll always remember my uncle when I hear it.

One Step At A Time by  Jordin Sparks-
I tend to get a lot of songs stuck in my brain and this tune was no exception. I was out with my Granny when this song was on repeat in my brain, so I think I tried mentally singing the mentioned Bring it All Back to get it out of my head. We go into a grocery store and on the speakers comes One Step At A Time. This is the point I thinking maybe the Lord's trying to get my attention and there's a reason the song's been in my head all that day. I was so moved by this experience I actually wrote a poem called Listen Up that I shared earlier this month.

I hope you guys have a good week, keep the music in your heart, and may God bless you.

Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer and Vampire >vv< Kitty

Man with Holes in His Hands

Happy Good Friday my friends,

It's time for another poem this one is perfect for the Easter holiday!\

Man with Holes in His Hands

A day of hope
Welcomed by birds' songs
Revealing greens and colored petals
The hazy moon floats through a sea
Of pink and baby blue
This beautiful morning we remember
A Man with healing hands

More than 2,000 years prior
This Man dragged his cross
To be place on a hill between two thieves
There to hang till death
To save us all
To give us hope
Precious blood flowing
Draining from nailed hands

Over 2,000 years today
A stone had been rolled away
Wrappings of death found empty
Death is beaten
He has risen
Yes it's really He
Feel the holes in His hands

I have to wonder
Was it like this when they went to the tomb
On this day of resurrection
When we hide those symbols of new life
Like our own renewal
A  gift of grace from
A Man with holes in his hands

If you celebrate Easter have a blessed one, if not have a blessed day anyway! God bless you!
Ninja <[0000]---------------[0000]> Writer and Vampire >vv< Kitty